From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 27 22: 7: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B59737B416 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 22:07:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id fBS66ur91757; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 22:06:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 22:06:56 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200112280606.fBS66ur91757@apollo.backplane.com> To: Thierry Thomas Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap_pager problem [was Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing] References: <20011221163036.G1015@windriver.com> <20011228002105.A5991@graf.pompo.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :I have upgraded this morning from 4.4-stable to 4.5-prerelease (cvsup at :08:15 GMT). : :Everything was OK, until I get into a problem very similar to PR :kern/30164: : :Dec 27 23:20:42 graf /kernel: sio0: 1 more silo overflow (total 284) :Dec 27 23:23:48 graf /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space :Dec 27 23:23:48 graf /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed :Dec 27 23:23:56 graf /kernel: pid 297 (XFree86), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space : :I was not running anything unusual (XFree4 + kde 2.2.2 with konqueror + :3 rxvt + one make fetch + mutt + one gcc for a middle-sized program), :and before 4.5-prerelease I had never met such a problem. : :For info: :#>pstat -s (after reboot!) That's a fairly heavy-weight combination. Probably one of the programs went on an infinite memory-allocation loop or something like that. One solution is to set a datasize limit in your .xinitrc or .xsession (whichever one you use to start up KDE), for example set a 128m limit, so the runaway program doesn't take the rest of the system down with it. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message